Become widely known and passed on.

synonyms: go around, spread.

Roget 311: turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through 180 degrees, go through 360 degrees, pass through 180 degrees, pass through 360 degrees.    circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; put a girdle round about the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.    wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist etc. (convolution) 248; make a detour etc. (circuit) 629.    ... show more

Roget 312: rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve^†; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.    roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin like a teetotum^†.    [of an automobile] spin out.    ... show more

Roget 800: amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; indorse etc. (security) 771; issue, utter; discount etc. 813; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize^†, monetize.    circulate, be in circulation; be out of circulation.    [manufacture currency] mint (coins), coin; print (paper currency). [vary the value of money] inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue.    [vary the amount of money] circulate, put in circulation; withdraw from circulation.    [change the type of currency] exchange currencies, change money.    charge interest; pay interest; lose interest.    ... show more

Dutch: circuleren

Cause to become widely known:
— Circulate a rumor.

synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread.

Roget 531: publish; make public, make known etc. (information) 527; speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.    proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet; trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross.    advertise, placard; post, post up afficher^†, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier.    raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat.    be published &c.; be public, become public etc. adj.; come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora [Lat.]; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.    ... show more

Dutch: verspreiden, uitdragen, rondbazuinen, rondbrieven, rondstrooien, uitbrieven

Cause to be distributed:
— This letter is being circulated among the faculty.

synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on.

Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.

Cause to move in a circuit or system.

Move around freely from person to person or from place to place.

Dutch: circuleren